Stay for trunks



(No Model.)

H. LAURENCE.

STAY FOR TRUNKS, GHBSTS, 50.

110,318,123. Patented May 19, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY LAURENCE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STAY FOR TRUNKS, CHESTS, Soc.

SPECIFIGATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 318,123, dated May 191 1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I ,HENRY LAURENCE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Stays for Trunks, Chests, and Hinges, of which the'following is the specification.

The nature and object of this :invention is to provide a stay for trunks, chests, and hinges that will be cheap, serviceable, and durable.

Figurel is aplan view ot' the stay. isavieW of same on a curved line. Fig. 3 is the same in combination with a hinge. Fig. 4 is a detail of one arm of the stay, showing` the lug. Fig. 5 is aview ot' stay on hinge used on a flat cover for box or chest.

rlhe stay is formed of two arms, A and B, joined together by a joint of peculiar con struction. In one arm, A, is a slot, a, cut near the end and in an oblique line with the length of the arm. On the under edge of this arm A is the lug c, projecting therefrom, as shown in Fig. 4. In the other arm,B,is a pin, d, rigidly fastened thereto and workingin the slot a in the arm A. The office ot' this piu d is to hold the two arms together, and is made to freely work in slot a, and Aone end of this pin is a head, which holds itin the slot a.

The application is as follows: The outer end of arm A is loosely fastened to the body of the trunk, and the other end of arm B is fastened to the lid thereof. IVhen the lid or cover is raised so that it stands a little past the perpendicular, the stay is in a direct or straight line, as shown in Fig. l, the pin d being either in or near a line drawn from l to 2, Fig. l. It now holds the cover from falling farther backward. On the cover being brought forward in the act of closing, the stay begins to assume the position shown in Fig. 2 antomatically. rlhis arises from the fact that the pin d works in the slot a, which is in a line Fig. 2

oblique tothe length of the arm, and it causes the pin to move downward from the direct line passing from 1 to 2; hence there is no locking of the joint ofthe two arms ot the stay. The lug e prevents the joint passing beyond a certain point, as it engages with the Other arm, B.

Another form of application is in Fig. 3. C C are two leaves of a hinge, united together at D by a bolt, the outer ends of the arms of stay being fastened loosely to leaves of the hinge at E E, and one leaf being fastened to the cover and the other fastened to the body or boX. Ill/hen the cover is lifted, the effect is the same as previously described. This stay can be applied to show-ease doors or to dat covers.

In Fig. 5 iS shown the form of hingewitll l. As an article of manufacture, a stay for' trunks, chests, 85e., formed of the two arms A B, the end oi arm A having a straight slot oblique to the length of the arm, and ou the edge under said slot having the lug c, and the end of the arm B having a pin attached thereto working in said slot, as and for the purpose shown.

2. The combination of the stay made ofthe two arms A B, the arm A having a straight slot oblique to the length of the arm, and on the edge under said slot having the lug e, and the end of arm B having a pin attached thereto, and working in said oblique slot, with two parts, C (l, hinged together at D, the tree ends of arms A Bbeing attached,respectively, to free ends ot parts C C, as and for the purpose shown.

HENRY LAURENCE.

\Vtnesses:

Jrs. A. Cownns, FELIX J. GRIFEEN. 

